Infoseepage

A few pictures from my late afternoon visit yesterday to what was once referred to as the "Hard town of Kruševac," the fortified city started by Prince Lazar in 1370. The biggest remains are the ruins on the Donjon and it's surviving dry ditch, and the church, which was desecrated by the Ottomans and used for gunpowder storage. A number of rampart walls and three sided towers (very characteristic of Serbian defensive architecture) survive in ruinous states.

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Lol, just learned that the US Strategic Petroleum Reserve was sitting at ~56% of capacity when Trump decided to bomb Iran. We didn't even fill up the tank before going to war.

This is the old town hall building in Vranje, Serbia. Is this not just exquisite architecture?

It seems like there are more questions surrounding the sinking of the Iranian frigate IRIS Dena. The ship may have not have been carrying any ammunition, as it was taking part in a joint exercise/foreign visit to India. The US had been a participant in those exercises and pulled out shortly before they began. So, they would have known India's terms for participation and that the Iranian frigate was unarmed.

@cstross@wandering.shop Hey, look at what just arrived! /me does a happy dance! Sorry about the library checkout instead of buying it outright. I'm chilling in Belgrade at the moment eating cheap bread and cheese while my coffers marginally refill.

@ChrisMayLA6@zirk.us That long decline, which I think a lot of Americans must feel in their bones, even while not being able to articulate it, is in large part the appeal of the MAGA "movement" and why it connects with so many. It lets them lay the blame for that decline on others, whether that is China, immigrants, godless liberals, elites, globalists - a barely concealed euphamism for Jews, LGBT. It is inarticulate raging with an inarticulate demagogue as its figurehead.